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 ‘Conference Hall’ – Senators complain over poor quality of reconstructed Senate Chamber Senators on Tuesday expressed anger over the condition of the reconstructed Chamber, which they described as a ‘mere conference room’. Controversy has trailed the refurbished Senate Chambers since plenary resumed in the facility last week. Last Tuesday’s plenary was trailed by confusion as some Senators quarreled over sitting arrangements in the renovated chamber. During plenary on Tuesday, complaints over the standard of the Chambers led to a rowdy session which lasted for about 15 minutes and eventually forced the Senate into executive session. The Chief Whip of the Senate and lawmaker representing Borno South, Ali Ndume, who raised the issues through Order 42 of the Senate Standing Rules, said, “What is supposed to be a Chamber, has been turned into a Conference Hall”, a development which he said is not acceptable. “Mr President, I rise to make disturbing observations on this supposedly renovate
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TRIBUNAL AFFIRMS NWIFURU AS EBONYI GOV. (PHOTO).

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 Tribunal affirms Nwifuru as Ebonyi gov

The Ebonyi State Election Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, affirmed the election of Francis Nwifuru of the All Progressives Congress as the Governor of the state.

The tribunal also dismissed the petition of the Peoples Democratic Party and its governorship candidate, Ifeanyi Odii.

The Independent National Electoral Commission had declared Nwifuru the winner of the March 18 poll with 199,131 votes while Odii came second with 80,191 votes.

But Odii and his party, the PDP rejected the outcome and vowed to challenge it.

Consequently, they approached the tribunal seeking the nullification of Nwifuru’s election on the grounds of non-compliance with the Electoral Act 2022 and alleged failure to score the majority of lawful votes cast at the guber poll.

Odii and the PDP legal team argued that the governor was at the time of the election, not qualified to contest the election on the platform of the APC because he was still a member of the People’s Democratic Party.

However, the Nwifuru’s party, the All Progressives Congress, submitted a letter before the tribunal showing that the governor resigned from the PDP while serving as speaker of the state House of Assembly, and defected to the APC before its primary election.

In its judgment on Wednesday, September 27, the three-man panel of the Tribunal chaired by JusticeLekan Ogunmoye held that the issue of nomination and sponsorship by a political party, being a pre-election matter, should have been challenged before the Federal High Court before the election.

The tribunal then declined jurisdiction to entertain the grounds of Nwifuru’s sponsorship of APC, saying it was an internal political party matter.

Justice Ogunmoye held that the petitioners could not prove there was non-compliance with the Electoral Act in the election.

It held, “Membership of a political party is a non-justiciable issue.”

The tribunal also said it could not overturn a Federal High Court judgment which observed that Nwifuru defected to the APC while serving as a lawmaker, faulting the PDP for not appealing the trial court judgment before now.

The panel observed that “the petitioners were consistently inconsistent” when they initially contended that Nwifuru was still their member at the time but eventually admitted he had defected to the APC.”

On the PDP’s assertion regarding alleged over-voting, mutilation and inflation of results, the tribunal observed that the petitioners called 20 witnesses who failed to prove that the disputed polling units results sheets were defective or not stamped in line with relevant laws.

The Tribunal equally observed that the petitioners failed to produce the polling unit results given to their polling unit agents as evidence of alleged electoral malpractice.

“The allegations of the petitioners remain unproven,” Lekan maintained, citing a Supreme Court judgment which states that overvoting can only be proved using the Voters Register, the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System report and Form EC8As.

Subsequently, the panel dismissed the petition, affirming Nwifuru as the duly elected governor of the state.


 

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